Home   Festival News Performers Schedule Buy Tickets Volunteers Rules & FAQ's Camping   Sponsors & Program Ads Vendors Crafts & Food Maps & Directions Lodging & Local attractions Folkscool CAMPING AT BLISSFEST The festival campgrounds provide rustic sites with a solar shower, water outlets, PortaJons with hand washing sinks, recycling bins and trash receptacles. No ground fires or any charcoal grills are allow but contained and monitored gas units are acceptable. Camping costs are $20/ overnight vehicle for the weekend in advance or $25 at the gate. Generally only weekend ticket holders are allowed to camp. There is abundant car& trailer camping as well as great walk-in camping in the woods. Check out the camping guidelines below. As well as the Camping FAQ. Site map   Basic* Site Map Detailed** Camping FAQ. Camp Site Diagram   General  Festival guidelines

*Site map showing general activity and camping areas in jpg format. Not to scale

**Site Map detailed site map in .pdf  format. Scale is 100 ft per "+" mark. 

A typical camp site diagram and criteria can be viewed here. 

Host Campers : There are 10 host camps throughout the campgrounds. They  help to monitor their particular area and provide assistance to campers. The host camps will be designated at the festival with visible wind dancers flying above their camp. They will have detailed maps of the camping area, a bulletin board for messages and festival guidelines and are self-serve for most of the day. Host posts do have radios and can help contact dispatch. We may need to recruit additional host campers so contact jim@blissfest.org for details.  

Festival Camping Guidelines.

1.Campground quite down time is at 1am-8am
2. State law for temporary campgrounds requires a minimum of 10' separating camping units. This is for fire protection.
3. Do not block roads and access points in the campground. 
4. No ground fires or charcoal fires of any kind.

More festival guidelines here

Back 40 Camping area

The Blissfest recently won approval from the Emmet County Planning Commission for a Special Use Permit allowing use of the Back 40 Campground Area.   The Special Use Permit  is again conditional upon meeting performance standards regarding noise levels and appropriate infrastructucture. Continued use of this area will again require that campers exercise care and responsible behavior. The festival will again allow a limited number of sites in this area this year. The density level will be monitored and strictly controlled. There will again be designated parking in the "Back 40" for those who wish to walk-in camp in the woods. 

Here is a site map that gives you a representation of the activities and all camping areas. This is a general map and we are working on adding more details. All camping areas will require a general quiet down period starting at midnight. It is important that all festival participants honor this rule since our collective behavior will determine if we can continue camping at all. Quiet-down simply means that we can sing, play music and have fun but we can not disturb fellow campers or the local neighbors.

Blissfest Festival      Site Map The site map gives you a guide to the camp areas and the activity areas. The stages and workshop areas are in yellow. Other amenities are labled in the activities area. The Hardwood Haven camping area includes the woods. It is a walk-in only camping area. There is designated  parking for walk-in campers 100 feet south of the wood-line in the Back 40 camp area. There are handicap parking spots in the vender parking area for those with the proper identification. The shower facility is marked in blue with an S. Check the key for additional locations for water, portable toilets, trash and recycling.